NASCAR to drivers: Use more wheelin', less dealin'

7:10 PM,
Sep. 14, 2013

Jeff Gordon drives back to his garage during practice Saturday.

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Jeff Gluck
| USA TODAY Sports

In the midst of its biggest credibility crisis since Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001, NASCAR held a closed-door meeting with drivers and team executives on Saturday to outline rules changes it hopes will help better define what is and is not allowable during a race and restore the public's faith in the sport.

On the eve of NASCAR's playoff opener at Chicagoland Speedway, drivers woke up Saturday morning and still did not know what is legal and what is not in terms of helping another car during a race after the fallout from last week's controversial finish at Richmond International Raceway.